Data tables, 2016 Census

Ethnic Origin (279), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3), Generation Status (4), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details ethnic origin , single and multiple ethnic origin responses , generation status , age and sex for the population in private households in Portage la Prairie
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Ethnic origin (279)	Single and multiple ethnic origin responses (3)
Ethnic origin (279)	Total - Single and multiple ethnic origin responses^Footnote 2	Single ethnic origin responses^Footnote 3	Multiple ethnic origin responses^Footnote 4
Total - Ethnic origin^{Footnote 5}	12,765	5,595	7,170
North American Aboriginal origins	3,760	1,545	2,215
First Nations (North American Indian)	2,065	1,035	1,035
Inuit	0	0	0
Métis	1,845	515	1,330
Other North American origins	3,310	1,435	1,875
Acadian	10	0	0
American	85	10	75
Canadian	3,235	1,420	1,810
New Brunswicker	0	0	0
Newfoundlander	0	0	0
Nova Scotian	0	0	0
Ontarian	0	0	0
Québécois	0	0	0
Other North American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 6}	0	0	0
European origins	8,755	2,065	6,685
British Isles origins	5,905	870	5,040
Channel Islander	0	0	0
Cornish	0	0	0
English	3,550	460	3,085
Irish	2,270	130	2,135
Manx	0	0	0
Scottish	2,935	230	2,705
Welsh	190	0	185
British Isles origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 7}	150	40	110
French origins	1,615	115	1,505
Alsatian	0	0	0
Breton	0	0	0
Corsican	0	0	0
French	1,620	115	1,505
Western European origins (except French origins)	2,690	560	2,130
Austrian	125	20	105
Bavarian	0	0	0
Belgian	255	20	230
Dutch	610	110	500
Flemish	20	0	20
Frisian	0	0	0
German	2,035	415	1,620
Luxembourger	0	0	0
Swiss	40	0	40
Western European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0
Northern European origins (except British Isles origins)	820	50	780
Danish	90	10	80
Finnish	50	0	50
Icelandic	255	25	230
Norwegian	230	10	220
Swedish	205	10	205
Northern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 9}	45	0	45
Eastern European origins	2,235	445	1,795
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Byelorussian	0	0	0
Czech	15	0	10
Czechoslovakian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 10}	25	0	30
Estonian	0	0	0
Hungarian	85	15	70
Latvian	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0
Moldovan	0	0	0
Polish	570	95	470
Romanian	25	0	25
Russian	375	45	330
Slovak	0	0	0
Ukrainian	1,535	280	1,260
Eastern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 11}	15	10	10
Southern European origins	175	15	160
Albanian	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0
Croatian	10	0	10
Cypriot	0	0	0
Greek	15	10	10
Italian	75	10	70
Kosovar	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0
Montenegrin	0	0	0
Portuguese	15	0	10
Serbian	0	0	0
Sicilian	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0
Spanish	55	10	50
Yugoslavian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 12}	0	0	10
Southern European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0
Other European origins	85	20	70
Basque	0	0	0
Jewish	50	0	45
Roma (Gypsy)	0	0	0
Slavic, n.o.s.^{Footnote 14}	0	0	0
Other European origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 15}	35	15	20
Caribbean origins	60	15	45
Antiguan	0	0	0
Bahamian	0	0	0
Barbadian	0	0	0
Bermudan	0	0	0
Carib	0	0	0
Cuban	0	0	0
Dominican	0	0	0
Grenadian	10	0	10
Guadeloupean	0	0	0
Haitian	0	0	0
Jamaican	0	0	0
Kittitian/Nevisian	0	0	0
Martinican	0	0	0
Montserratan	0	0	0
Puerto Rican	0	0	0
St. Lucian	0	0	0
Trinidadian/Tobagonian	15	10	15
Vincentian/Grenadinian	0	0	0
West Indian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 16}	30	10	20
Caribbean origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 17}	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins	115	0	115
Aboriginal from Central/South America (except Arawak and Maya)	0	0	10
Arawak	0	0	0
Argentinian	10	0	10
Belizean	0	0	0
Bolivian	0	0	0
Brazilian	0	0	0
Chilean	10	0	0
Colombian	0	0	0
Costa Rican	0	0	0
Ecuadorian	0	0	0
Guatemalan	0	0	0
Guyanese	0	0	0
Hispanic	0	0	0
Honduran	0	0	0
Maya	0	0	0
Mexican	80	0	85
Nicaraguan	0	0	0
Panamanian	0	0	0
Paraguayan	0	0	0
Peruvian	10	10	10
Salvadorean	15	0	10
Uruguayan	0	0	0
Venezuelan	0	0	0
Latin, Central and South American origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 18}	15	0	10
African origins	55	45	10
Central and West African origins	25	20	0
Akan	0	0	0
Angolan	0	0	0
Ashanti	0	0	0
Beninese	0	0	0
Burkinabe	0	0	0
Cameroonian	0	0	0
Chadian	0	0	0
Congolese	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Gabonese	0	0	0
Gambian	0	0	0
Ghanaian	0	0	0
Guinean	0	0	0
Ibo	0	0	0
Ivorian	0	0	0
Liberian	0	0	0
Malian	0	0	0
Malinké	0	0	0
Nigerian	10	15	0
Peulh	0	0	0
Senegalese	0	0	0
Sierra Leonean	0	0	0
Togolese	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0
Central and West African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 19}	0	0	0
North African origins	0	0	0
Algerian	0	0	0
Berber	0	0	0
Coptic	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Egyptian	0	0	0
Libyan	0	0	0
Maure	0	0	0
Moroccan	0	0	0
Sudanese	0	0	0
Tunisian	0	0	0
North African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins	10	10	0
Afrikaner	0	0	0
Amhara	0	0	0
Bantu, n.o.s.^{Footnote 21}	0	0	0
Burundian	0	0	0
Djiboutian	0	0	0
Eritrean	0	0	0
Ethiopian	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Kenyan	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Mauritian	10	10	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Rwandan	0	0	0
Seychellois	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0
South African	0	0	0
Tanzanian	0	0	0
Tigrian	0	0	0
Ugandan	0	0	0
Zambian	0	0	0
Zimbabwean	0	0	0
Zulu	0	0	0
Southern and East African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 22}	0	0	0
Other African origins	25	15	10
Black, n.o.s.^{Footnote 23}	10	0	10
Other African origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 24}	15	15	10
Asian origins	570	485	90
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins	25	15	10
Afghan	0	0	0
Arab, n.o.s.^{Footnote 25}	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0
Assyrian	0	0	10
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Hazara	0	0	0
Iranian	10	0	0
Iraqi	0	0	0
Israeli	10	15	0
Jordanian	0	0	0
Kazakh	0	0	0
Kurd	0	0	0
Kuwaiti	0	0	0
Kyrgyz	0	0	0
Lebanese	0	0	0
Palestinian	0	0	0
Pashtun	0	0	0
Saudi Arabian	0	0	0
Syrian	0	0	0
Tajik	0	0	0
Tatar	0	0	0
Turk	0	0	0
Turkmen	0	0	0
Uighur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0
Yemeni	0	0	0
West Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 26}	0	0	0
South Asian origins	215	175	40
Bangladeshi	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Bhutanese	0	0	0
East Indian	195	155	35
Goan	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Pakistani	15	15	0
Punjabi	0	0	0
Sinhalese	0	0	0
Sri Lankan	10	10	0
Tamil	0	0	0
South Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 27}	15	0	10
East and Southeast Asian origins	335	295	40
Burmese	0	0	0
Cambodian (Khmer)	0	0	0
Chinese	40	10	35
Filipino	245	225	10
Hmong	0	0	0
Indonesian	10	0	0
Japanese	10	0	0
Karen	0	0	0
Korean	45	40	0
Laotian	0	0	0
Malaysian	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Singaporean	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0
Thai	10	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	0	0
East and Southeast Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 28}	0	0	0
Other Asian origins	0	0	0
Other Asian origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 29}	0	0	0
Oceania origins	0	0	0
Australian	0	0	0
New Zealander	0	0	0
Pacific Islands origins	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0
Hawaiian	0	0	0
Maori	0	0	0
Samoan	0	0	0
Polynesian, n.o.s.^{Footnote 30}	0	0	0
Pacific Islands origins, n.i.e.^{Footnote 31}	0	0	0

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not applicable

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Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

Total ethnic origin responses are the sum of single and multiple responses for each ethnic origin. Total response counts indicate the number of persons who reported a specified ethnic origin, either as their only origin or in addition to one or more other ethnic origins. The sum of all ethnic origin responses is greater than the total population estimate due to the reporting of multiple origins.

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Footnote 3

A single ethnic origin response occurs when a person provides one ethnic origin only.

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Footnote 4

A multiple ethnic origin response occurs when a person provides two or more ethnic origins.

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Footnote 5

This is a total population estimate. The sum of the ethnic groups in this table is greater than the total population estimate because a person may report more than one ethnic origin in the census.

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Footnote 6

Includes general responses indicating North American origins (e.g., 'North American') as well as more specific responses indicating North American origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Maritimer').

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Footnote 7

Includes general responses indicating British Isles origins (e.g., 'British,' 'United Kingdom') as well as more specific responses indicating British Isles origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Celtic').

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Footnote 8

Includes general responses indicating Western European origins (e.g., 'Western European') as well as more specific responses indicating Western European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Liechtensteiner').

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Footnote 9

Includes general responses indicating Northern European origins (e.g., 'Northern European') as well as more specific responses indicating Northern European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Faroese,' 'Scandinavian').

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Footnote 10

Includes responses of 'Czechoslovakian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 11

Includes general responses indicating Eastern European origins (e.g., 'Eastern European') as well as more specific responses indicating Eastern European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Baltic').

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Footnote 12

Includes responses of 'Yugoslavian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 13

Includes general responses indicating Southern European origins (e.g., 'Southern European') as well as more specific responses indicating Southern European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Gibraltarian').

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Footnote 14

Includes responses of 'Slavic,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 15

Includes general responses indicating Other European origins (e.g., 'European') as well as more specific responses indicating European origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Central European').

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Footnote 16

Includes responses of 'West Indian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 17

Includes general responses indicating Caribbean origins (e.g., 'Antilles,' 'Caribbean') as well as more specific responses indicating Caribbean origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Aruban').

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Footnote 18

Includes general responses indicating Latin, Central or South American origins (e.g., 'South American') as well as more specific responses indicating Latin, Central or South American origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Surinamese').

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Footnote 19

Includes general responses indicating Central or West African origins (e.g., 'West African') as well as more specific responses indicating Central or West African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Luba,' 'Mossi').

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Footnote 20

Includes general responses indicating North African origins (e.g., 'North African') as well as more specific responses indicating North African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Maghreb').

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Footnote 21

Includes responses of 'Bantu,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 22

Includes general responses indicating Southern or East African origins (e.g., 'East African') as well as more specific responses indicating Southern or East African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Hutu,' 'Shona').

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Footnote 23

Includes responses of 'Black,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 24

Includes general responses indicating Other African origins (e.g., 'African') as well as more specific responses indicating Other African origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Saharan').

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Footnote 25

Includes responses of 'Arab,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 26

Includes general responses indicating West Asian, Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins (e.g., 'West Asian,' 'Middle Eastern') as well as more specific responses indicating West Asian, Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Baloch,' 'Circassian').

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Footnote 27

Includes general responses indicating South Asian origins (e.g., 'South Asian') as well as more specific responses indicating South Asian origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Telugu').

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Footnote 28

Includes general responses indicating East and Southeast Asian origins (e.g., 'Southeast Asian') as well as more specific responses indicating East and Southeast Asian origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Bruneian').

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Footnote 29

Includes general responses indicating Other Asian origins (e.g., 'Asian') as well as more specific responses indicating Other Asian origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Eurasian').

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Footnote 30

Includes responses of 'Polynesian,' not otherwise specified.

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Footnote 31

Includes general responses indicating Pacific Islands origins (e.g., 'Pacific Islander') as well as more specific responses indicating Pacific Islands origins that have not been included elsewhere (e.g., 'Tahitian').

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016187.

Date modified:: 2019-06-17

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